{"id":1390,"date":"2013-06-26T18:23:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T18:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2013-06-26T18:44:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T18:44:11","slug":"musselburghs-old-links-course-fills-in-11-bunkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/golf\/courses-and-travel\/1390\/musselburghs-old-links-course-fills-in-11-bunkers","title":{"rendered":"Musselburgh\u2019s Old Links Fills in 11 Bunkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a story in the <em>Edinburgh Evening News<\/em>, Musselburgh&#8217;s Old Links lost 11 bunkers much to the surprise of many golfers who play there regularly. The move was done, according to the article, to save money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Keen player and local Alan Hay, who is the cousin of the late golf commentator Alex Hay, claims the community should have been &#8216;better consulted&#8217; on the contentious plans \u2013 which council chiefs insist have been carried out to enhance the course.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2013\/06\/IMG_1213.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1391\" alt=\"IMG_1213\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2013\/06\/IMG_1213-300x149.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a>&#8220;He said: &#8216;We are talking about the sporting legacy of the town and the oldest golf course in the world. The community council should have been notified at the very least.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8217;Why not fill in all the bunkers, then fill in all the greens and let\u2019s just have a grass meadow? It\u2019s only the oldest golf course in the world.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the R&amp;A was consulted about the modifications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey approved the plans which will greatly enhance the quality of the course and hopefully entice both visitors and top professionals coming to East Lothian this summer for the Open at Muirfield,&#8221; a council person is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the entire article by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/edinburgh-evening-news\/latest-news\/musselburgh-s-old-links-course-facing-cutbacks-1-2781073\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a story in the Edinburgh Evening News, Musselburgh&#8217;s Old Links lost 11 bunkers much to the surprise of&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/golf\/courses-and-travel\/1390\/musselburghs-old-links-course-fills-in-11-bunkers\" title=\"ReadMusselburgh\u2019s Old Links Fills in 11 Bunkers\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,17],"tags":[867311],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-courses-and-travel","tag-musselburgh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}